Rachel Weisz - Biography

Last Editor: polly.tan				Rachel Weisz Biography -   Name : Rachel Weisz Birth Date : March 7, 1971 Birth Place : London, England, UK Height : 5' 7 Education : Cambridge University in Cambridge, England (majored in English Literature) Profession : Actress Nationality : British Claim to fame : as Miranda in Stealing Beauty (1996) Domestic partner(s) : Darren Aronofsky

Rachel Weisz Trivia -

She pronounces her last name "Vice." Rachel studied English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University. She dated director Sam Mendes. [2001] Studying English at Cambridge University, Weisz formed the Talking Tongues theater company and at 1991's Edinburgh Festival won a student drama award for a play she wrote and acted in. She lives in a US$450,000 London apartment and drives a Jaguar. She has recently become a patron of The X Appeal, which is the official charity of the Royal College of Radiologists. Her father invented respirators that supplied their own oxygen and machines that sense land mines. 1998: Named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by the European Film Promotion Board. She was awarded the 1994 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre) for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance in Design for Living. Educated at the prestigious St Paul's Girls School in London. Was in the same class as actress Emily Mortimer. Lives in New York with director Darren Aronofsky (2004). Ranked #30 in Stuff magazine's 102 Sexiest Women in the World (2002). Drives an old, black Jaguar 4.2 Sovereign with pepper-pot wheels. Is the face of Revlon (2005). Announced on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992) that she was five months pregnant and engaged to Darren Aronofsky. [January 6, 2006] When asked who her idols were, she named Gena Rowlands, Katharine Hepburn, Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacLaine, Ingrid Bergman, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Rachel and her fiancé, Darren Aronofsky, became the parents of a son, Henry Chance on May 31, 2006. Invited to join AMPAS in 2006. Replaced Kate Moss as the new face of the Burberry campaign. Was a radical feminist at University. Her favorite movie is Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell's psychedelic 1970 masterpiece Performance (1970). Good friends with fellow British actors Jude Law and Susan Lynch. Is very good friends with fashion designers Narciso Rodríguez and Donna Karan. Was offered a large part in the Richard Gere movie King David (1985) when she was only 14. Her parents wouldn't let her do it. She was offered the role of "Becky" in Clerks II (2006). She couldn't do it because of scheduling conflicts. The role eventually went to Rosario Dawson. Is of Hungarian (from her father's side) and Austrian-Italian (from mother's side) descent. Divides her time between New York and London, where she has a home on the same street as fellow British actor and good friend Jude Law. Is semi fluent in German. While filming The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001), she formed a strong friendship with fellow co-stars John Hannah and Oded Fehr. They remain good friends. Has a younger sister named Minnie Weisz. Very good friends with the Fiennes family having worked with both Joseph Fiennes in Enemy at the Gates (2001) and twice with Ralph Fiennes in Sunshine (1999) and The Constant Gardener (2005). Beat out Nicole Kidman for the role of Georgie Jutland in Dirt Music (2009). She won her Oscar for playing a pregnant woman in The Constant Gardener (2005) while she was pregnant in real-life with her first child. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#37). [2007]. She had a role in the film Smart People (2008), but dropped out before filming began. As a result, Sarah Jessica Parker was given her role. Ranked #85 on Askmen.com's 100 Most Desirable Women in the World (2008). Was originally considered for the role of Daisy in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) but later backed out due to scheduling conflicts. The part was then given to Cate Blanchett. She ranked #44 on Glamour Magazine's Most Glamourous Women in the World list (2009).

Rachel Weisz Detailed Biography -

Rachel was born March 7, 1971, in London, England. She is an accomplished British actress and stage star. Her mother is a Viennese born psychotherapist and her father is a Hungarian born inventor. At the age of fourteen, Rachel began modeling as she completed her secondary education. Rachel's acting career began while attending Cambridge to study English. She broke into acting with a role in Sean Matthias' "West End" revival of Noel Coward's "Design for Living". Rachel earned the attention of an international audience with her role as the spoiled daughter of a sculptor in Bernardo Bertolucci's "Stealing Beauty". This allowed Rachel to garner notice of her own, and this recognition was furthered by her top billing opposite Keanu Reeves in "Chain Reaction" that same year. Unfortunately, the big budget thriller was not a box office success by any means and received an undeserving blow to her acting ability. Rachel returned to Britain to star as a hairdresser in the drama "I Want You". She next appeared in the hollywood success, "Mummy", as Brendan Fraser's damsel in distress. To further her triumph that same year, she played yet another starring role in "Sunshine", Istvan Szabo's epic drama about three generations of a family of Hungarian Jews. Rachel's subsequent return was in the early 20th century drama, with "Enemy at the Gates", as a Russian party official caught between the affections of a Russian American sniper. Rachel is a stunning and popular actress that we are sure to see a lot more of in the years to come.